Nature of the Beast

Korban of ancient societies differed and while the word could be etched in stone it was the *means and method* that etched it in the heart and mind of the masses. There were cities of blood which often had to do with their "Inscriptions of a religious and public character" or an "Instrumentum domesticum".^[1]
There Goddesses of social welfare which provided for the public religion or Feasts. If that daily bread is provided by Faith, hope, and charity it will produced strong social bonds which are the natural fruits of that relationship. If the means and method of that distribution of free bread is performed by force and fear the fruit of that relationship ends in the fealty of the foolish?
This is because the "dainties" of these rulers and "... their table become(s) a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare... become(s) a trap."^[2] There are many warnings of scripture but many modern Christians again turn a blind eye ^[3] to the Truth and are entangled again in those covetous practices with an appetite for the wages of unrighteousness offered by "benefactors who exercise authority one over the other".^[4]

Nature of the Beast

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase nature of the beast first appeared in the 1600s: The nature of the beast was said to be “the inherent or essential quality or character of something, (usually undesirable) which cannot be changed and must be accepted.”

First appearance was said to be in the 1678 John Ray's Collection of English Proverbs (ed. 2) 77 “It's the nature o' th' beast.” It was suggest it was an accepted idiom at that time.

But I found in the 1567 translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis by Arthur Golding who died in 1606:

The beastes doo breake theyr fast with flesh:

& yit not all beastes neyther.

For horses, shéepe, and Rotherbeastes too live by grasse had lever.

The nature of the beast that dooth delyght in bloody foode,

Is cruell and unmercifull. As Lyons féerce of moode,

Armenian Tigers, Beares, and Woolves.

Oh, what a wickednesse

It is to cram the mawe with mawe, and frank up flesh with flesh,

And for one living thing to live by killing of another:” See context.

Metamorphosis was the Roman poet Ovid's magnum opus. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar as the Son of God.

We see the word “unmercifull” used by Golding in Romans 1:31 “Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:”

The word unmerciful is translated from the Greek word aneleemon ^[5] which is the negative form of the word for mercy from eleos^[6] meaning “mercy: kindness or good will towards the miserable and the afflicted, joined with a desire to help them “ and is a distinguishing characteristic of “true Christians” who lives by faith rather than taking a bite out of his neighbor through force.

Void of Right Reason

The Nature of the Beast is void of “Right Reason” and of faith but bite friend and foe to fill his appetite.

Right Reason is equated with divine will and the Natural Law but if you read the rest of Romans 1 to know that the “righteousness of God [is] revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”

Romans 1:17 "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."

Living by faith is not living by force.

Romans 1:19 ¶ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Metamorphoses Context

“The first foundation of the world: the cause of every thing:

What nature was: and what was God: whence snow and lyghtning spring:

And whither Jove or else the wynds in breaking clowdes doo thunder:

What shakes the earth: what law the starres doo keepe theyr courses under:

And what soever other thing is hid from common sence.

He also is the first that did injoyne an abstinence

To feede of any lyving thing. He also first of all

Spake thus: although ryght lernedly, yit to effect but small:

Yee mortall men, forbeare to frank your flesh with wicked foode.

Yee have both come and frutes of trees and grapes and herbes right good.

And though that sum bee harsh and hard: yit fyre may make them well

Both soft and sweete. Yee may have milk, and honny which dooth smell

Of flowres of tyme. The lavish earth dooth yeeld you plentiously

Most gentle foode, and riches to content bothe mynd and eye.

There needes no slaughter nor no blood to get your living by.

The beastes doo breake theyr fast with flesh:

& yit not all beastes neyther.

For horses, shéepe, and Rotherbeastes too live by grasse had lever.

The nature of the beast that dooth delyght in bloody foode,

Is cruell and unmercifull. As Lyons féerce of moode,

Armenian Tigers, Beares, and Woolves.

Oh, what a wickednesse

It is to cram the mawe with mawe, and frank up flesh with flesh,

And for one living thing to live by killing of another:”

P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Arthur Golding, Ed.

Welfare

Footnotes

↑ Jerusalem and Caesarea Inscriptions and New Testament Study: A Review Article, Simon Gathercole, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK Page 395.
↑ Psalms 69:22
↑ False prophets and Guru theories
Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."

Isaiah 30:20 "And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,..."

Matthew 13:13 "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."

Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recoveing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

John 9:39 ¶ "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."

Luke 6:39 "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."

Acts 13:11 "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."
↑ Not exercise authority
Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."

Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."

Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
↑ 415 ~ἀνελεήμων~ aneleemon \@an-eleh-ay’-mone\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 1655; TDNT-2:487,222; {See TDNT 232} adj AV-unmerciful 1; 1
1) without mercy, merciless
↑
1656 éleos ἔλεος: (el'-eh-os), t Definition: mercy, pity, compassion(translating OT 02617 /kataisxýnō, "covenant-loyalty, covenant-love" in the OT-LXX over 170 times) – properly, "mercy" as it is defined by loyalty to God's covenant.
- 1. Mercy of men toward men: Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7; Matthew 23:23, James 2:13; James 3:17; to exercise the virtue of mercy, James 2:13; with the common Hebrew phrase פּ עִם חֶסֶד עָשָׂה, Genesis 21:23; Genesis 24:12; Judges 1:24, mercy to one, Luke 10:37.
- 2. of God toward men;
a. universally: Luke 1:50; in benedictions: Galatians 6:16; 1 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:4 ; 2 John 1:3; Jude 1:2.

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[1] Jerusalem and Caesarea Inscriptions and New Testament Study: A Review Article, Simon Gathercole, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK Page 395.

[2] Psalms 69:22

[Blindlead'-3] False prophets and Guru theories
Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."

Isaiah 30:20 "And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,..."

Matthew 13:13 "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."

Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recoveing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

John 9:39 ¶ "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."

Luke 6:39 "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."

Acts 13:11 "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."

[exauth-4] Not exercise authority
Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."

Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."

Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."

[5] 415 ~ἀνελεήμων~ aneleemon \@an-eleh-ay’-mone\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 1655; TDNT-2:487,222; {See TDNT 232} adj AV-unmerciful 1; 1
1) without mercy, merciless

[6] 1656 éleos ἔλεος: (el'-eh-os), t Definition: mercy, pity, compassion(translating OT 02617 /kataisxýnō, "covenant-loyalty, covenant-love" in the OT-LXX over 170 times) – properly, "mercy" as it is defined by loyalty to God's covenant.
1. Mercy of men toward men: Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7; Matthew 23:23, James 2:13; James 3:17; to exercise the virtue of mercy, James 2:13; with the common Hebrew phrase פּ עִם חֶסֶד עָשָׂה, Genesis 21:23; Genesis 24:12; Judges 1:24, mercy to one, Luke 10:37.

2. of God toward men;

a. universally: Luke 1:50; in benedictions: Galatians 6:16; 1 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:4 ; 2 John 1:3; Jude 1:2.

[7] 1. Mercy of men toward men: Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7; Matthew 23:23, James 2:13; James 3:17; to exercise the virtue of mercy, James 2:13; with the common Hebrew phrase פּ עִם חֶסֶד עָשָׂה, Genesis 21:23; Genesis 24:12; Judges 1:24, mercy to one, Luke 10:37.

[8] 2. of God toward men;

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